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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.07445 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0143] May-August 1800 |
| Title | Henry Knox to Paul Dudley Sargent, Oliver Parker and Thomas Phillips about the attacks and deaths of his surveyors. Wants perpetrators punished |
| Date | 14 August 1800 |
| Author | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Recipient | Sargent, Paul Dudley Parker, Oliver Phillips, Thomas |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Legal document |
| Content Description | Knox relates to Sargent, Parker, and Phillips the assaults and death of his surveyors by "unlawful and armed combinations of individuals" who had only murder as their intention on July 18, 1800. Knox asks that they bear in mind the "law of the Commonwealth passed the 20th day of February 1787, entitled "an act for the more speedy and effectual suppression of Tumults and insurrections in the Commonwealth." Knox wants these perpetrators punished. |
| Subjects | Waldo Patent Boundary or Property Dispute Law Crime Criminals and Outlaws Rebellion Surveying Assassination Injury or Wound Death Mobs and Riots |
| People | Sargent, Paul Dudley (1745-1828) Phillips, Thomas (fl. 1787-1800) Parker, Oliver b. 1760) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Place written | Thomaston, Maine |
| Theme | Law |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
| Related documents | Henry Knox to unknown. Part of a copy of GLC02437.07445. |